Carolinas Medical Center
Program Description
Type of Program
Post EM Residency: one year fellowship
EM residency since 1976
Hospital: 874 beds (including 234 at Children's Hospital), community-based teaching hospital, Level 1 Trauma Center
ED volume: 115,000 annual visits (85,000 Adult and 30,000 Pediatric)
ED ultrasounds > 14,000/annually
Year Fellowship Started
2005
Ultrasound Program Status
(1) EUFAC Accredited through 2025
(2) ACEP's Clinical Ultrasound Accreditation Program (CUAP) Accredited
(3) Division of Emergency Ultrasound
Number of Ultrasound Faculty
6 core ultrasound faculty
1 part-time ultrasound faculty
Notable Faculty
Vivek Tayal, MD
Anthony Weekes, MD, MS
Denise Fraga, MD, MPA
Margaret Lewis, MD
Lindsey Chaudoin, MD (Pediatric Emergency Medicine)
Vitaliy Belyshev, MD
Peter Brooks, MD
Ultrasound Fellowship Education
Didactics: faculty lectures, monthly ultrasound journal review, fellow to prepare 5 presentations throughout the year
Experiential: Scan sessions one-on-one with dedicated ultrasound faculty
Education: Resident and medical student education, teach fellows from other departments (Trauma Critical Care & PEM fellows)
Research: faculty mentor assigned for fellowship project (QI or research project) to guide through project design, IRB submission, abstract submission to EM conference
Administrative: weekly QA of ultrasound studies, weekly ultrasound division meeting
Do you bill for ultrasounds?
yes
Do you require follow up imaging for patients who get ultrasounds?
Only for some specific studies
Other Information
1) Emphasis on critical care applications
2) Rigorous and advanced QA process and infrastructure
3) Real-time experience in EM US administration and mentoring
4) Mentored ultrasound research project available
